The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-30
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! for this year.
OVER three hundred new settlements in
Dakota are applicants for post-ofiices.
A SHARP frost has done much damage to
| early vegetables in northern Florida and
southeast Georgia.
| MANY man is always ready to pay his
respects to you who will never pay much of
anything else.-Boston Post.
| Snow lies seven feet deep i'm sunny italy
and it is feared that the hand-organ crop is
seriously damaged Phaadelphid call.
THIRTY-Two-FooT spruce log was re-
Gently sawed into boards in a Puget Sound
mill 1t made $500 feet of lumber without
a knot.
A NEW minstrel company will take the
road next season with $4,000 worth of new
printing and 800 worth of new Jokes Philo-
delphia call.
Mrs. GooDINGToN says she doesn't think
much of anonymous writers. In nine cases
out of ten nobody knows who they are
| Boston Transcript.
AN Englishman travelling in this country
concludes that the American people are alb
normally active, because every body makes
practice Of running for office.
IT is the little things that are the most
wonderful and difficult; it is possible for
human enterprise to make a mountain, but
impossible for it to make an oyster.
In Bill Nye's opinion a man is fool
who will sit up nights and lose his rest in
order to rob trains when he can 90 to con-
gress and get in his little work on the
surplus.
A LITTLE English school-boy was asked to
explain the difference between prose and
poetry. After some consideration he re-
piled: "' Blue volets is prose and violets
blue is poetry"
A SCIENTIST is responsible for the state
ment that hair around the mouth impairs
/ fhA al
orators, statesmen, ministers and lawyers
wear smooth face.
THE matrimonial season in Washington
was a failure. Not one-fourth of the mar
riageable girls captured husbands. And
yet some people think that the present
administration is success.-Bditimore
american.
A NOTED singer of Paris once had a cat
possessed of such an ability to detect a
musical imperfection that she never sang
piece in public until she had sung it to puss,
confident that she would please an audience
II her rendition was satisfactory to the cat
OBADIAH VINCENT, an inmate of the
Cumberland county Illinois, poor-house,
was born in Kentucky in 1867, and is conse-
quently one hundred twenty years old
His form is bent nearly double, he is blind
and yet until few weeks ago he was able
to do enough work to keep him out of the
poor house.
THE sun will be burnt out, according to
Sir William Thompson, in ten million years.
1t will be great day for electric light COM
panies when that period arrives. They will
be unable to supply the demand for light,
and our citizens who now decline to take
stock in our local companies will regret that
they were so short-sighted N0rristo1cn
Herald.
C. p. MARSHALL of Perry, Ga, shut up
his cat III the dining-room one afternoon and
went into the library to take a nap. Half
an hour afterwards he was surprised to find
Tom purring away on the sofa beside him.
The cat had climbed up the dining-room
chimney, walked across the roof and de-
scended through the other chimney into the
library.
To friend who directed his attention
to foolish criticisms upon his poetry Robert
Browning is said to have replied: 81 have
had too long an experience of the inability
of the human goose to do other than cackle
when benevolent and hiss when malicious,
and no amount of goose criticism shall make
me lift heel against what waddles be-
| hind it,"
A YOUNG woman in Philadelphia, twenty
nine years old, was told by the doctors that
she must give up tight lacing or die, and
the way she laid herself down and died
without murmur has called forth the
praise of all her acquaintance. When they
cut her corset-strings the report was sup
| posed by many to mean another boiler eX-
plOSlOn.-DetTOU FTee ITeSS.
WHEN Mrs Stoves" Uncle Toms Cabin"
was published, in 1852, Henry Ward Beecher
had become so well known that thousands
of people were foolish enough to believe
that he had written the book for her,
whereas in England Mrs. Stoves name be-
came so much more famous than his that
for many years the English papers, when
ever they spoke of him at all, were accus-
toned to mention him as Mr.. Beecher Stowe.
PARIS papers report that the drummers and
| trumpeters of the German army are hard at
work learning the beats and calls of the
French troops. They also allege that in many
engagements in the war of 1870 the com
mand to cease firing was often given to the
French infantry by German buglers, and
that the command to halt, sounded by the
same buglers, often stopped a charge of
French cavalry and placed them in posi-
ton where they could be moved down.
A HUMOROUS incident in connection with
a matrimonial advertisement is bit from
travellers diary. On the steamer to the
English colony was seen a comely young
woman who was soon to meet her promised
husband, whom she had obtained by adver-
tisement and whom she had never seen. AS
tine steamer neared land she became much
agitated, and when it anchored she hid be-
hind the door of the ladies' cabin, saying that
she never could meet Tompkins. In the
meantime the lover had been taken i'll and
sent a substitute to meet his promised bride.
lie SUBSTITUTE tdlltu lot lIt young lduyy
and before he had time for explanation she
ran forward, threw her arms about his neck
and exclaimed, ooh, Tompkins, | knew
you would look like this ~ The following
explanations were embarrassing.
NONE of Beechers children inherit his
ability even in moderate degree. This
fact, indeed, illustrates what may be called
the etflorescence of genius The latter re-
quires century at least of gradual progress
to reach a full flower, and then dies. The
industrious blacksmith of New Haven is
the father of the reputable preacher, who in
turn gives the world a still higher develop
ment in the orator of Plymouth church.
The highest mark having been reached,
reaction Immediately begins, and the next
generation will sink into obscurity SINH
lar instances are found in Edward Everett
and Daniel Webster and many other men
of note that could be mentioned, while in
Great Britain we have Walter Scott,
Thomas Moore, Charles Dickens and others
who illustrate the same natural law.-NeW
York Letter.
IT is stated, upon seemingly good au-
thority, that the president of the Podunk
Grand Trunk route was born in Connecticut
and used to peddle door-knobs for fresh
eggs. Edwin Forrest Goodwin, the we'll
known tragedian ran into the night express
train on the Oshkosh q Paw Paw narrow
gauge, last week, and severely sprained his
ankle. AT the time the accident occurred
he was travelling in the same direction as
the train, People having cows steers